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[launderer]

[So this hasn't been a traumatic last few days at all. Still Sky assumes it's better to at least find something to do than sit around and think about how she isn't home. Or about how people were just killed on earth. What she's supposed to do? She doesn't know. She amusingly assumes to herself that at least no one will need her to cook any books here.]

Ugh, hi. I'm Skyler. [Because while only a handful here are associated with her husband, she would rather leave him out of this.]

I'm not really sure what I'm supposed to do. [And this is already starting to sound like an AA introduction or something.] I'm a mom back home. It's the one thing I'm really good at.

[It's not entirely true, but she doesn't really know what else to say, and who needs an accountant in space?]

I like to write, and I don't really have powers. Or know how to fight. Well. [She doesn't want to think about the fight with the kitchen knife, so instead she just breathes and nods.]

I'm not sure what I could really do here, but I'm good with children. I have two of my own, and I'd like to help if I can.

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[launderer]

I'm sorry you lost her. [She's been torn away from her daughter, so part of her can understand this.]

[kyoumibukai]

Mm. It was really more of a problem of her losing herself to revenge.

[He looks down, his bangs hiding his face.]

When there was no longer anyone who take her revenge on, she had nothing more to live for, I suspect. But I was gone, too, when she died. I suppose after all that, it was too much to see me die again, as well.

[launderer]

[She doesn't entirely understand, but she does know enough about loss.]

Some people get hell bent on something, and that's all they end up caring about. It doesn't mean it hurts any less to lose them though.

[kyoumibukai]

I'm sorry, this probably sounds incredibly far-fetched from your perspective. Suffice it to say I died twice, once as a child, then being reborn as a creature made entirely of data... And then roughly 14 years later, when the data body became unstable and disintegrated.

[He rubs his cheek, feeling odd to be telling someone the next part, but feeling it necessary. After all, this was a discussion about family... right?]

My father and eldest sister had died, my mother followed soon after. And after that, my remaining elder sister gave her life to restore mine. Perhaps as a sort of penance... The family had been at odds with me and conventional morality for several years.

[He gives a wan smile.]

Now I am the only one left. I have a found family that I treasure, however. Without them here, though, I am reminded what my life was like before I met them, and it is a strange thing to relive, now knowing what having them was like.

[launderer]

[She listens carefully, trying to understand though some of it does go over her head for the sheer unbelievability of it all, but she doesn't doubt him, and she doesn't judge him.]

You can try and rebuild. [Though she has a feeling she knows how hard that will be.]

[kyoumibukai]

I... suppose. They are irreplaceable people I treasure. I suppose the amount of friends one can have is infinite, as long as the bond will be maintained without attention.

[He looks down, sighing.]

My partner is irreplacable, though. He is the one I miss the most.

[He squares his shoulders.]

I've learned something about being a good judge of character, at least. Even if I, myself, am not the most morally upright individual.